{"id":9057,"date":"2020-12-06T21:37:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T03:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=9057"},"modified":"2020-12-06T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:00:52","slug":"british-airways-souvenir-sale-hits-snag-as-demand-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=9057","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Souvenir Sale Hits Snag as Demand Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From Russell Hotten &#8211;\u00a0BBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2d60b77abfd842181161c6b6510d30ed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2d60b77abfd842181161c6b6510d30ed.jpg 704w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2d60b77abfd842181161c6b6510d30ed-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>British Airways&#8217; online sale of thousands of surplus stock not needed for its aircraft caused a stampede of buying from aviation enthusiasts and bargain-hunters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first 24 hours, 5,000 purchases were made, with the website getting 250,000 page views. In the first four days, 1,900 six-packs of bread baskets were snapped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meal trolleys were among the first to sell out. Items from the now-retired Boeing 747s in BA&#8217;s aircraft fleet were in big demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trouble is, the sell-off seems to have been so popular it risks becoming a PR headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link below to read the full story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/british-airways-memorabilia-sale-hits-220237864.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/british-airways-memorabilia-sale-hits-220237864.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iu-1024x360.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iu-1024x360.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iu-300x106.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iu-768x270.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iu.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways&#8217; online sale of thousands of surplus stock not needed for its aircraft caused a stampede of buying from aviation enthusiasts and bargain-hunters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10174,797,89,5637,8222,7929,2203,13021,5676,10169,10176,10173,10195,10171,868,10182],"tags":[63,464,420,625,160,11536,8030,13009,13012,41,624,4456,8910,13019,13007,3796,2493,8116,13020,6269,1483,5796,2291,2290,2972,11278,13015,412,3132,3675,5455,10481,8007,1934,13017,13008,13011,4273,13006,8773,13005,13004,13014,101,3227,13010,1691,1658,13013,13016,3659,1939,13018],"class_list":["post-9057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-consumer-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-great-britain","category-international-news","category-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stockairline","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","tag-63","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airways","tag-aviation","tag-bargain","tag-bbc","tag-bedding","tag-blankets","tag-boeing","tag-british","tag-buying","tag-caused","tag-crashing","tag-cups","tag-customers","tag-demand","tag-drinks","tag-ebay","tag-enthusiasts","tag-fleet","tag-flew","tag-flyer","tag-frequent","tag-head","tag-hits","tag-hunters","tag-news","tag-off","tag-online","tag-points","tag-purchases","tag-retired","tag-sale","tag-satisfied","tag-saucers","tag-shelves","tag-site","tag-slippers","tag-snag","tag-soars","tag-souvenir","tag-stampede","tag-stock","tag-surplus","tag-towels","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-trolleys","tag-trustpilot","tag-twitter","tag-website","tag-whatabuy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9060,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions\/9060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}